Former Walmart associate Jacqueline Cote and her lawyers have filed a motion asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to grant preliminary approval of a class action settlement in Ms. Cote’s action challenging Walmart’s lack of health insurance benefits for same-sex spouses of Walmart associates prior to...

The victims claim that Chiquita paid at least $1.6 million in protection money over several years ending in 2004 to violent right-wing paramilitary groups that tortured, kidnapped and killed their relatives.

Struggling blood test startup Theranos Inc. on Monday was hit with a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of investors who sank hundreds of millions of dollars to buy shares in the privately held company ­once valued at $9 billion.